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Toronto - Professional who should find a different hobby…

Stuart Samuel

Stuart Samuel

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Hi Folks,

Looks like my account’s activated? Could never get the forum to send me an email…

Been a metalworker professionally since 2006, mostly custom lighting fabrication, with one year in there as a blacksmith. Before that, trained as goldsmith.

Because I’m a glutton for punishment, I also have a home shop, with a Super 7 (looking for something bigger, would dearly love an Okuma LK…), a variety of drill presses, included a disassembled Burgmaster OB that someone damaged, a DoAll V16 that needs its wiring sorted out, and a Syncrowave 250DX. My living situation is, uh, atypical, so my building has 600V/3ph power. :)

Day job, currently working on a 1/4 scale model of a monument for Western University, and restoring the lighting for the Centre Block of Parliament, in Ottawa.

At home, just trying to fight the chaos.
 
Model, Muntz metal, 35 1/2” tall.
 

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Welcome from a bit West near Chatham Ontario.

I have no idea what a Muntz Model is. Guessing you were hoping someone would ask.....

It's possible I caused the lighting problem in Ottawa. Was at a meeting there 20 years ago. There was a slide presentation but the Ottawa guys didn't know how to operate the fancy lighting control panel. After a half hour of futzing with us waiting, I got fed up, crawled up onto the board room table and unscrewed the light bulbs. My boss had a heart attack. But one of the four Ministers at that meeting said that's why business can do what the folks in Ottawa can't, and then everyone laughed.

I'm guessing those bulbs are still unscrewed and the Ottawa guys hired you to fix that fancy light control system. Just for poops N giggles, crawl up onto the boardroom table and see if they are still unscrewed..... LOL!
 
Susquatch said:
Welcome from a bit West near Chatham Ontario.

I have no idea what a Muntz Model is. Guessing you were hoping someone would ask.....

It's possible I caused the lighting problem in Ottawa. Was at a meeting there 20 years ago. There was a slide presentation but the Ottawa guys didn't know how to operate the fancy lighting control panel. After a half hour of futzing with us waiting, I got fed up, crawled up onto the board room table and unscrewed the light bulbs. My boss had a heart attack. But one of the four Ministers at that meeting said that's why business can do what the folks in Ottawa can't, and then everyone laughed.

I'm guessing those bulbs are still unscrewed and the Ottawa guys hired you to fix that fancy light control system. Just for poops N giggles, crawl up onto the boardroom table and see if they are still unscrewed..... LOL!
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Thanks Susquatch!

Not specifically fishing for a conversation, but...
So, the model's made of a copper/zinc/iron alloy (~60/40/sub 1, I think the max is something like 0.15%) that was originally developed for cladding the hulls of ships, as a cheaper alternative to straight copper. I'm not sure how much maritime use it sees now, but it's something architects seem to like to specify.
It's a model in that, if the University ever goes ahead with the rest of the job, we (or someone else, I suppose) will make two of them four times that size, I think to go on either side of a road. At that scale, it'll go from 0.032' sheet to 1/8", and be a bit shy of 12 feet tall, plus a concrete plinth it sits on.

Ottawa lights, I'm not sure who's looking after the control systems, maybe that one's still a mess!
We're only looking after cleaning/repairing/restoring any 'historic' lighting. I'm mostly excited to get my hands on the two fixtures from the Senate chamber, which are massive (~8' in diametre ~3000 lbs). But wouldn't you know it, 'Phil Poirier' has gotten up there and scratched his name and the date into both of them...
 
Tecnico said:
Welcome to the party, that’s some serious metal bending skilz! It that used in water (for the anti-fouling properties) or elsewhere?

Welcome also from another Super 7 driver, this one in NS.

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Thanks Dave! The bending was a little fussy, the corner sections especially. I'd like more tonnage than we have available for longer stuff, trying to get a nice 90 degree on 6' plus is a nightmare. We have an 8', 45 ton press, so don't think I'm good enough to manage this on a box and pan or something!

Not specifically used in the water, but if they go ahead with the final thing, there's be two of them outdoors, in London, Ontario. They'll be up a bit, but exposed to whatever weather comes their way, including salt spray if they salt the roads on campus. So, hopefully no shipworms boring their way into the LEDs inside! :)
 
Stuart Samuel said:
Not specifically fishing for a conversation, but...
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Great stories Stuart.

Keep em coming. We love to hear different things and learn new stuff even when it doesn't involve machining. In fact there is even a separate subforum for off-topic stuff. Machinists in general are people with a wide variety of skills and knowledge.

I didn't really think you would be working on the lights in that boardroom. But it is a story I love to tell. You had to be there to really appreciate this large high-powered meeting with several ministers, senior bureaucrats, and industry CEOs and then out of nowhere without a word said, this big hairy guy gets up on the top of the table and unscrews all the lightbulbs! That was a featured story when I retired too.
 
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